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Ranked as the #1 analyst on Seeking Alpha in 2014, Brad Thomas leverages his background as a real estate developer and advisor to national retailers to bring practical, real-time insights to Premium Content subscribers. Brad researches, tests, and reports on a variety of real estate-based income alternatives, including publicly traded real estate investment trusts and real estate operating companies.

My approach to selecting sound stocks is to seek out a big discount to allow some room for error. Diversification is a must and it takes only a few large losses to decimate overall investment performance, even if many other investments prove successful. Read more.

Back in 1981 when Stanley Tanger founded his name-sake company, Tanger Factory Outlets (SKT) in Burlington, North Carolina he never dreamed that his brand name factory outlet concept would become a nationwide shopping obsession. With a proven 35-year track record of performance, Tanger has become a highly-diversified landlord leasing to many of the most desirable “best in class” […]

Back in 1981 when Stanley Tanger founded his name-sake company, Tanger Factory Outlets (SKT) in Burlington, North Carolina he never dreamed that his brand name factory outlet concept would become a nationwide shopping obsession. With a proven 35-year track record of performance, Tanger has become a highly-diversified landlord leasing to many of the most desirable “best in class” […]

We just finished our RHINO Ratings for all of the healthcare REITs, in which we have ranked all of the companies based on a quantitative scoring system. In our model, we have included a number of metrics, such as earnings (or FFO) growth, dividend safety, strength of the balance sheet, and government pay risks. Read more.

Reuters cited my research last week, “Ladder is seen well positioned to handle a potential interest rate rise because it has $1.4 billion of floating-rate securities and $1.2 billion of interest rate hedges on its balance sheet, according to a note by independent real estate investment trust analyst Brad Thomas.” Read more.

To be very clear, I see absolutely no reason to jump ship with Realty Income. We did recommend trimming shares a few months ago. However, we never went to a SELL as we consider this particular REIT one of our favorite “buy-and-hold” stocks. Read more.

As many of you know, I recently completed a new book called The Trump Factor: Unlocking the Secrets Behind the Trump Empire. In my book, I personally visited each property owned by President-Elect, Donald J. Trump. It took me over three years to tour the buildings and golf courses, mainly because I was self-funded, and I […]

In my new book, The Intelligent REIT Investor, my co-author and I provide information to assist investors with wisely manage real estate risk effectively. By maintaining a tactical exposure in the brick and mortar asset class, investors should benefit from the information contained in our new book. Read more.

While it is impossible to eliminate all investment risk, we believe investors can greatly minimize such risk by filtering out disadvantageously positioned securities from the outset. Read more.

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Editor of Forbes Real Estate Investor

As a contributor for Seeking Alpha and Forbes, as well as Senior Analyst at iREIT, Brad Thomas is a real estate expert with a strong background in capital markets. Thomas researches and writes on a variety of real estate based fixed-income alternatives, maintaining real-time research on around 100 U.S. equity REITs, Mutual Funds, and REIT ETFs. In addition to writing and lecturing, Thomas works as a commercial real estate strategist, consultant, and advisor to retailers around the world.

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"Brad, your research and subsequent articles on REITs are of the highest caliber and quality, and many of us are very appreciative! Thank you for untangling the REIT web!!
(long VTR, HCP, CCP, DLR, OHI and wishing/hoping/longing for some fairly-valued O!)"

AnannlindSeeking Alpha Follower

"Brad,
Repeating my comment on your article (Intelligent REIT Investor), I very much appreciate your incredible articles. Since February, I have turned our $260k portfolio into a $365K portfolio by paying close attention to your advice. Making more than a $100k in five months feels pretty good! Roger"

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"Thanks to you, Brad, REITS are 17.9% of my current income on 12.3% of investment. Without your guidance I would never have bought into the REIT story."

Bill BullardSeeking Alpha Follower

"Largely because of this author I have been seriously looking to move a material % of my investable income into REITs. Thomas has become my 'go-to' source for all things REIT.
As a subscriber to the "Forbes Real Estate Investor", I want to thank Brad Thomas for his countless superb articles over the years that have educated me to be a thoughtful and better informed investor.
I look forward to reading your new book on REIT investing due to be released in late August."

Ruven77Seeking Alpha Follower

"I am now a very satisfied customer of your Forbes newsletter. I subscribed right in the sweet spot: I am thoroughly enjoying the 2016 REIT boom. Particularly with the assistance of your dividend safety ratings (which have themselves paid for my subscription) & your buy-sell ratings."

Harold Blytt Forbes Newsletter Subscriber

"I am watching friends and family who pay 1.5% for "wealth management" and are getting very low returns in what should be a fairly good year. Point being, with you advice at zero cost to me, I am far ahead of my friends. I commented a few times on Lexington after my own evaluation of their financials and all you data. I went long in late January 6K shares and now wish it was 60K. Thanks again and always thanks for helping, big-time, all small individual investors."

PapaoneSeeking Alpha Follower

"For all you savvy investors out there here is your laugh of the day...about a year ago I decided to "reach for yield" in my portfolio. As I am retired and can spend time researching REITs and BDCs, I decided to concentrate on some of these stocks. But I found that my research was not as accurate or as extensive as this Dude on Seeking Alpha...Brad Thomas. Wellbeing the naturally lazy person that my father always claimed me to be, I just found that Brad was doing the work for me. OK...here's the punch line...I just BUY 100 shares of any stock that Brad touts. I'm happy to report that I'm UP in all my purchases and enjoying the dividends. Crazy huh?"

Alan DagianSeeking Alpha Follower

"This small time investor is really learning from you. Thank you!"

MFCoyoacanSeeking Alpha Follower

Another great article - thanks for sharing, Brad. Your research is extremely useful.

Investment PancakeSeeking Alpha

Brad - I love your research, one of my most trusted sources for ideas and verifying my own stock DD. People can say what they want but Trump has been very successful in the real estate business which is a cut throat business. No one bats 1000... Look at it this way when he becomes president your worthless stock certificate that you had the foresight to hold unto will be a value historic document.

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